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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting April 10, 2019: Testify! Before They Were Bread Pt1 - Plus...

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3   
Gary McFarland  Fried Bananas   Favoriting The In Sound  Verve  1966  LP   
Gary McFarland  80 Miles an Hour Through Beer Can Country   Favoriting America the Beautiful  Skye  1969  LP   
Gary McFarland  On This Site Shall Be Erected   Favoriting America the Beautiful  Skye  1969  LP   
Gary McFarland  Get Back   Favoriting Today  Skye  1970  LP   
 
Jimmy Griffin  These Are the Times   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Imperial  1965  45   
The Gentrys  Make Up Your Mind   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MGM  1965  45  written by Jimmy Griffin w/Jack Brady 
The Astronauts  Main Street   Favoriting Travelin' Men  Warner Brothers  1967  LP  Written by Jimmy Griffin and Michael Z Gordon 
The Doodletown Pipers  Image of You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1967  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Beethoven Soul  Dreams   Favoriting Beethoven Soul  Dot  1967  LP  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Morning Glories  Love In   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45  wr Griffin/ TS Farthingsworth IV (Robb Royer, later of Bread) 
Morning Glories  You're So Young   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Warner Brothers  1967  45  wr JJ Cale/Griffin/Gordon 
Lesley Gore  Brink of Disaster   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mercury  1967  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Sagittarius  Hotel Indiscreet   Favoriting Present Tense  Columbia  1967  LP  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Surrprise Package  The Other Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1967  45  wr Griffin / Gordon 
Surprise Package  East Side West Side   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1968  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Harper's Bizarre  Jessie   Favoriting Anything Goes  Warner Brothers  1967  LP  wr Griffin/Gordon 
 
James Griffin  The Light of Your MInd   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Viva  1968  45  wr James Griffin/Robb Royer 
James Griffin  Thank You Love   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Viva  1968  45  wr Griffin/Royer 
James Arthur Griffin  The Miracle Worker   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Viva  1970  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
James Arthur Griffin  Lookin' So Much Better   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Viva  1967  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
The Roosters  Love Machine   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Philips  1968  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Michael J James  Get the Message   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Uni  1969  45  wr Griffin/Gordon 
Bread  Could I   Favoriting Bread  Elektra  1969  LP  wr Griffin/Royer 
Slade  Could I   Favoriting Play It Loud  Polydor  1970  LP  wr Griffin/Royer 
Bread  The Last Time   Favoriting Bread  Elektra  1969  LP  wr Griffin/Royer 
Bread  Call On Me   Favoriting On The Waters  Elektra  1970  LP  wr Griffin/Royer 
The Carpenters  For All We Know   Favoriting 45RPM Single  A&M  1970  45  wr Fred Karlin/James Griffin/Robb Royer 
 
David Bowie  Life On Mars   Favoriting Hunky Dory  RCA  1971  LP   
David Bowie  Eight Line Poem   Favoriting Hunky Dory  RCA  1971  LP   
Herbie Mann  Miss Free Spirit   Favoriting Stone Flute  Embryo  1970  LP   
Bobbi Humphrey  Sad Bag   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Blue Note  1971  45   
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45   


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Listener comments!

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chresti:

Hey Testify!
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Funky16Corners:

Chresti!
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Gary:

Larry!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Funky16Corners:

Gary!
Avatar 10:03pm
TDK60:

Wish I could stay long DJ Larry G., but tonight I really knead to get to bed early.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

Rest well then TDK60 and I'll catch you in the archives!
Avatar 10:04pm
northguineahills:

If I was going to do a program of remixed and mashuped Bread related tracks, I'd call, "The Best Thing since Sliced (and Diced) Bread".
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Funky16Corners:

NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Franco Twinkie:

Larry! Enfrente con platanos fritos
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
chresti:

Harharr! TDK60, you're on a roll!
Avatar 🥁 10:05pm
Erica:

Here I am, ready for the Before Bread show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Franco!
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TDK60:

yes, the archives, fresh on the shelves.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Funky16Corners:

Erica!
Avatar 10:08pm
TDK60:

the rolls, are they done?
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Matt from New Orleans:

I’m done here. I hate terrible puns.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Matt!
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TDK60:

really bye. heh...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite TDK!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Franco Twinkie:

Pun away, you yucksters!
Avatar 🥁 10:11pm
Erica:

Before they were Bread, when they were just ingredients to make dough.
Avatar 🥁 10:11pm
Erica:

Yeah that was too long of a pun.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

As the Freak Brothers would say, 'Dope will get you through times of no Bread better than Bread will get you through times of no dope.'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Franco Twinkie:

Bada bing, Erica!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
chresti:

Nite TDK60, you early "riser"
Avatar 10:15pm
northguineahills:

@Erica: and if they recorded an album w/ a single $10 mic in their bedroom, they'd be Flatbread. (I see the yeast joke sans or otherwise has already been made)
Avatar 10:17pm
northguineahills:

If Gary McFarland did a granulated synthesis composition, would he be Powdered Toast Man? (points for those who get that reference).
Avatar 10:18pm
fleep:

you folks have a rye sense of humor
Avatar 🥁 10:19pm
Erica:

Haha Ren & Stimpy. Good one ngh!
Avatar 10:21pm
northguineahills:

*ding ding ding* Erica w/ the points!
Avatar 🥁 10:22pm
Erica:

I keep on dancing...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Funky16Corners:

Fleep!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Jeff Ash:

I also am here tonight, tripping through the meadow.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Funky16Corners:

Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 10:29pm
Erica:

Hi Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Note the co-writing credit on this one
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Jeff Ash:

Greetings from Wisconsin, Erica!
Avatar 🥁 10:37pm
Erica:

Lesley Gore's later stuff is underrated/unheard of compared to her hits from her early period. Sad she's no longer with us.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Have you ever heard the soul recordings she made in Philadelphia with Gamble and Huff?
Avatar 🥁 10:39pm
Erica:

No Larry I haven't.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Funky16Corners:

I'll play them sometime here. They're good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yesterday morning I got two loves of rustic sourdough at this upscale bakery in Pasadena called Seed. In the 70's at the same location was a take-out place called Bill's Chicken In A Bag. Bill was this skinny old man who looked like Hound Dog Taylor. The place was coated with grease inside and out. They had a great jukebox packed with Jimmy Reed, Bobby Bland and Etta James. I would go there when I was really high, get a bag of wings, which came with about five slices of white bread. I would drive around north Pasadena in my maroon VW, listening to the radio throwing chicken bones out the window. Life was sweet and care free. But having said that, now I truly love expensive crafted leavened bread and skinless organic chicken. But if I could go back...
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Funky16Corners:

That sounds delicious!
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still b/p:

Got home and turned the computer to tune in, but got damned distracted with other damned computer biz and delayed the happy ears. I've lamented before the lack of a trained reminding monkey who'll move in and keep me on track! And will go out to fetch chicken.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Funky16Corners:

SBP!
Avatar 🥁 10:48pm
Erica:

I hate it when I get distracted from the music as well.
Avatar 🥁 11:00pm
Erica:

Now THIS sounds Beach Boys-esque in terms of the vocals
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Funky16Corners:

He was definitely listening closely to Brian Wilson
  11:03pm
rw:

Hello!

Franco, seems the times have been keeping up with you.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Funky16Corners:

rw!
  11:11pm
rw:

I've been mostly distracted up 'til now but it's cool to hear the hooks getting progressively hookier.
  11:12pm
rw:

Or is that just me?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Funky16Corners:

The very Beatle-y side of Bread!
Avatar 🥁 11:13pm
Erica:

Fresh Bread, before they became too soft (yes that was another pun).
Avatar 🥁 11:14pm
Erica:

You know what I meant, this was before they had soft rock hits.
  11:15pm
rw:

Beatlebread.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

That first Bread album has some great songs on it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Franco Twinkie:

It's funny how I never heard any of this stuff when it came out. It was aimed at the radio like a heat seeking missile, but some how went off course?
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Funky16Corners:

Do you mean Bread or the earlier stuff?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Franco Twinkie:

Early, I should have clarified.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Funky16Corners:

I don't think any of that stuff got played much. There was so much great stuff in competition to get o the radio that you had to get lucky, even if you had great hooks and performances
Avatar 11:21pm
northguineahills:

I missed Bread the first time around for obvious temporal reasons, but I do have one of their LPs. I'm afraid drifting off (finally getting my circadian rhythms under control). Thanks Larry, cheers, y'all!
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Funky16Corners:

Nite NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

A little surprise coming up next to close out the set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
Franco Twinkie:

But regarding Bread. I don't remember them getting a lot of FM air play, even though this stuff was upper crust.(groan)
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Erica:

Better pun than mine Franco
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Baby I'm-A Want You is getting reissued on vinyl by MSFL in May
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Funky16Corners:

@Franco - Once they started getting AM hits and moving more toward David Gates stuff FM looked the other way
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Erica:

Didn't expect to hear this one on Testify Haha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Funky16Corners:

Griffin and Royer wrote the lyrics. It won them an Oscar for best original song
Avatar 🥁 11:26pm
Erica:

So this is from which movie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Whenever I hear the carpenters I think of Todd Haynes’ creepy movie Superstar about Karen Carpenter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
Franco Twinkie:

In L.A. the most discerning FM station, KPPC would play the hell out of the first Elton John album, for good reason! But Bread? no.
Avatar 11:28pm
still b/p:

Speaking of what gets on and played, saw the story yesterday of Youngbloods version of Get Together, not a hit until a couple years after initial release, not until a record guy with clout pushed his company to re-release it and, as Jesse Colin Young puts it, "The country was ready."
Avatar 11:28pm
northguineahills:

Radio, I don't need no stinin' (non-WFMU) radio! I play Harpers Bizarre everything all the time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Franco Twinkie:

Matt, along with Welcome To The Dollhouse, one of Todd Haynes best.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Franco Twinkie:

Still b/p, Check out the original Get Together by Dino Valente. Rough and beautiful.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Funky16Corners:

I think Welcome to the Dollhouse was Todd Solondz
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Franco Twinkie:

Right!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Matt from New Orleans:

It was. Here’s Superstar on YouTube
youtu.be...
It’s can’t be publicly exhibited yet somehow it’s managed to not be taken down from YouTube
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Erica:

So the last set is just gonna be Bowie or is it random stuff?
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still b/p:

Valente sold the rights to Get Together to get money to fight a drug rap! But got them back later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Don’t like surprises Erica?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:

@Erica - A couple of different things
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Franco Twinkie:

You know the story.
Avatar 🥁 11:36pm
Erica:

Just wondering Matt.
  11:38pm
rw:

Hunky Dory is such a great record.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I love that early Bowie stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

Back to bread for a minute: I think Jac Holzman saw a great opportunity in Bread to make wads of money for Electra Records without all the head aches of dealing with the type temperamental geniuses the label was known for.
Avatar 🥁 11:53pm
Erica:

Sounds like a deep scratch.
  11:53pm
rw:

Did we talk about where Bread got their name or is that a story?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Franco Twinkie:

I was skeptical of Bowie for that reason....then I saw him. Everything changed.
  11:57pm
Dean:

I recall checking out from my high school library Bowie's Space Oddity, c. '75. It impressed me, but at the time I was aiming toward Renaissance and Medieval dance tunes. So I didn't buy into him at the time. And even now I love Rennaisnce and Medieval dance music.
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Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Larry. Sleep well.
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Funky16Corners:

@rw - I'm not sure I know where Bread got there name
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Matt!
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Erica:

Goodnight folks!
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Funky16Corners:

Nite Erica!
  12:00am
rw:

It's just such a weird name. I wondered if there was a story.

Thanks Mr. Grogan! Super. Have a good evening everyone!
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Funky16Corners:

Nite rw!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14am
chresti:

Good nite!
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